Your Goodness is running after me.

 Your Goodness Is Running After Me

Your goodness is running after me—

Not a distant hope,a someday-promise on a shelf,

But a pursuing love,outpacing my own self.

With every step I take,forward or in flight,

It chases down my darkness with relentless light.

Your goodness runs.

It follows me through crowded streets and silent rooms,

Through every corridor where shame or sadness looms.

It is the constant whisper when the world is loud,

The breaking of the dawn behind the darkest cloud.

Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life. (Psalm 23:6, NLT)

When I turned my back, thinking I had fled Your gaze,

I found it was Your goodness that had marked my ways.

It was the arms of morning that I could not outrun,

The certain,steady heartbeat of a love I had not won.

It runs in forgiveness when I falter, fall, and fail.

It runs in provision—a ship with every sail

Filled by the wind of grace I did not earn or seek.

It runs in strength supplied to weary ones and weak.

And on the days I stand still, breathless, overcome,

Your pursuing goodness does not merely come—

Itcollides with grace, a tide that knows no shore,

And whispers,“Child, I have been here forevermore.”

So I will stop my striving. I will let myself be found,

Enfolded by a goodness that has my life surrounded.

For I cannot escape it,this love that will not cease,

Your goodness,in its running, has become my perfect peace.

All my life…

You have been faithful.

And Your goodness is running after me.

Before I was, You are.

Amen.